Pollution havens and foreign direct investment: Dirty secret or popular myth?

Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2004, Pages

  Javorcik, Beata Smarzynska ^a   Wei, Shang Jin ^b  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND   (United States)

Author keywords

Corruption; Foreign direct investment; Pollution

Indexed keywords

EID: 14944361046     PISSN: 15380645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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